πλήρωμα plērōma
Greek word for “fulfillment” · Strong’s G4138 · used 17 times in 17 verses
Meaning
πλήρωμα, -τος, τό; (πληρόω);
How it is translated
Glosses given for plērōma in context, with how often each is used:
- fullness 13
- patch 2
- fillings 1
- fulfillment 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romans | 4 | 0.6 | |
| Ephesians | 4 | 1.7 | |
| Mark | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Colossians | 2 | 1.3 | |
| Matthew | 1 | 0.1 | |
| John | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Corinthians | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Galatians | 1 | 0.4 |
Chapters where it is used most
Romans 11 (2), Ephesians 1 (2), Matthew 9 (1), Mark 2 (1), Mark 6 (1), Mark 8 (1), John 1 (1), Romans 13 (1), Romans 15 (1), 1 Corinthians 10 (1)
Forms
- πλήρωμα 11
- πληρώματος 3
- πληρώματα 2
- πληρώματι 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with plērōma more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- αἴρω airō “to take up” 4
- ἄγναφος agnaphos “unshrunk” 2
- ῥάκος rhakos “a cloth” 2
- ἐπίβλημα epiblēma “patch” 2
- σχίσμα schisma “split” 2
- κλάσμα klasma “fragment” 2
- χείρων cheirōn “worse than” 2
- παλαιός palaios “old” 2
- πόσος posos “how much/many?” 2
- κατοικέω katoikeō “to dwell” 2
- ἱμάτιον himation “clothing” 2
- πληρόω plēroō “to fulfill” 2
Key verses
The verses using plērōma that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- John 1:16 — And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- Romans 11:12 — Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
- Romans 11:25 — For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to…
- Romans 15:29 — And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 10:26 — For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
- Galatians 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
- Ephesians 1:10 — That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even…
- Ephesians 1:23 — Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
- Ephesians 3:19 — And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
- Ephesians 4:13 — Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of…
- Colossians 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
- Colossians 2:9 — For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
See all 17 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.